The 12×12 album is $30 and includes 10 pocket page protectors: (8) 12×12, (1) 4×6, (1) 4×6/3×4. There are also 10 pocket page designs available plus a variety pack.

Album Outside:

metal bookplate

contrasting stitching and metal corners

Note: Be careful peeling off the small sticker that comes on the front of the album. It does not leave a residue, but you don’t want your fingernail digging into the leather when you try to grab the sticker edge.

Album Inside:

two interlocking D-rings – photo shows the page protectors that came with the album; plenty of room left.

Pocket Page Protectors:

pockets are true-to-size

The 4×6 card in this photo is NOT centered in the pocket. I pushed it to the left edge to show how much room would remain on the right side.

The page protectors are heavy weight, and you can buy a variety pack OR a pack of the style you use most. The album comes with the variety pack (10 pages, two of each style).

Unexpected discovery: the pocket sizes are more true-to-size now! Which means the 4×6 photos fit better. There is a very small gap in case you have a bulky embellishment, but the gap isn’t so big that your flat 4×6 photo will slide around. The page protectors in my previous album review were about 3/16-inch wider than these page protectors. There is a Simple Stories logo on this new set – I’m guessing that is how we can tell it’s the new design.

Conclusion:

Buy this album. :) It looks and feels luxurious and fancy, and the 6×8 size is perfect for any scrapbooking project, including December Daily and Project Life. In the past, I’ve used 6×8 Simple Stories albums for Christmas and summer Project Life.

Also, I am tired of typing “faux leather” and would like to invent a word: fleather.

Edit: Fleather is already a word? Seriously? *sigh* One of these days I’m going to invent a word for real…

This is a perfect size to start with. I have been wanting to try this type of scrapbooking.. I teach Kindergarten and would like to start making one album this size each year to remember my special classes

I’ve seen it mentioned as ‘Italian leather’ why I don’t know. I thought Italian leather was the same as everywhere else.:-)
Album looks gorgeous very versatile from 30 Days of Thankful(Cathy Zielske), December Daily to every day pocket scrapping. Would love to win one!

6×8 is my standard scrapping size, all my albums are. It would be so so great to have them in a cover like this!
(thank you for the review on Small Scrapbook Albums, it’s almost impossible to find them here in stores and the info about size and quality of different albums and page protectors is very useful).